The same day (Katniss = 8 ½ months pregnant Effie = 6 ½ months pregnant)

Just as if Haymitch and Effie were expecting something like this to happen they dart right into action. Haymitch runs out of the room and goes into the kitchen to grab the phone, probably to call both Peeta and the doctor. Effie rushes over to me and helps me out of the door and back into my house.

"Effie, I am so sorry about the mess, I have probably ruined your carpet!" I say as she rushes me through the door. She turns to me laughing and smiling and says, "Katniss, really, you are going into labor and all that you are worried about is a damn carpet. You really need to sort out your priorities!"

Effie carefully leads me up the stairs holding me while I waddle up, every step feeling like a bloody mountain. She rushes me over to the bed in the birthing room. "Effie, wait, I think that I should get changed before I lay down, I can't give birth in these clothes!" I say gesturing to my current outfit. A few days ago I decided on the right thing to wear when I was going to give birth. I decided on a bikini top because I might want to give birth in the water, and then I decided on one of Peeta's very old tee shirts, which still smells like him, in the hope that the smell may be able to calm me down if I get worked up.

Effie helps me to strip out of my entirely soaked clothes. I have become completely confident to be able to be naked in front of people ever since I had three stylists looking and cleaning me up in all sorts of places. Effie then helps me to get changed (which is becoming harder because of my huge stomach, I am now officially a balloon with a fat face and huge ankles) into the bikini top and then Peeta's tee shirt over the top. I hear the door open and slam and footsteps sprinting up the stairs. At that moment I get another pain in my lower abdomen and I double over. Effie holds me and rubs my back while I grimace at the pain. I then feel the hands on my back switch to familiar warm hands that make my pain go away in a heartbeat. I turn around and Peeta is looking at me with an extremely worried expression on his face.

"Are you okay Kat, Haymitch called me and told me that your water broke so I rushed out of the bakery straight away. I also called Doctor George and he is coming straight away. How far apart are your contractions hunny?" He asks me, while he leads me over to the already made up bed. "I guess about 15 minutes, I haven't really been counting though!" I say in response laying on the bed and resting my head on the pillow while Peeta continues to rub my head. Effie gives me a big kiss on the forehead and says something about getting Haymitch and bringing some blankets to stay in the living room together. We lie there for about 10 minutes before we hear the door downstairs open and close downstairs. Doctor George comes walking through the door with a big briefcase in his hands and a prepared look on his face, which pleases me.

"So Katniss, are you ready to have a baby today?" He asks me laughing as he puts on his gloves and sets up one of the machines already in place in our birthing room. I nod in return as another pain hits me this one ever so stronger than the first. Peeta begins to rub my back again all the while whispering in my ear to "keep breathing". As the pain eases off Doctor George asks Peeta how far apart my contractions have been and he answers him with 14 minutes.

Doctor George tells me that he is going to check how far I am dilated and I nod in response unable to speak through my deep breathing. Doctor George asks Peeta to get behind me and hold the weight of my back so that there is less back pain, which should help me since I am having more of a back labor. Peeta gently lifts my back up and slides down beside me, making me feel at home in his body. He then follows Doctor George's instructions and holds one of my legs to my chest. I feel Doctor George starting to enter my body and I grimace in slight pain, but I have to remember just a little bit of pain now is not going to be anywhere near as bad as the feeling when I have to push a whole baby out of me.

After a few minutes Doctor George stands back up and starts to pull of his gloves. "Okay Katniss, you are 4 cm's dilated so you are on your way, however you cannot start to push until you are at 10 cm's so you do still have a way to go," I groan at his words knowing that I am going to be in labor for a hell of a long time. "Now Katniss, because you are experiencing a significant amount of back labor I would suggest that getting in the tub would be the best way to relieve a lot of the pain that you are experiencing with the contractions."

I nod and Peeta begins to get up slowly, just as I begin to slide my legs of the bed another wave of pain his me and I double over.

ANOTHER CLIFF HANGER GUYS SORRY!

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